{"id":782526,"date":"2026-05-08T18:41:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/782526\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T18:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:41:23","slug":"box-office-mortal-kombat-ii-rings-up-5-2m-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/782526\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: ‘Mortal Kombat II’ Rings up $5.2M Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNew Line\u2019s Mortal Kombat II<\/a><\/strong> stepped into the ring Thursday night and rang up $5.2M<\/strong> in previews, which isn\u2019t that far from the amount the studio clocked a year ago in previews from Final Destination Bloodlines ($5.5M). That highly anticipated horror film opened to $51.6M.<\/p>\n

\n\tAll of Mortal Kombat II\u2018s cash is from Thursday. Showtimes began at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n

\n\tForecasts<\/a> for the R-rated Mortal Kombat II came down into the $40Ms, and the question remains whether the second weekend of The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/a> will beat it, with that sequel expected to get a big boost from Mother\u2019s Day. Lionsgate\u2019s Michael is expected to bring in a female crowd on Sunday as well. Disney has pushed out extra spots this week for Devil Wears Prada 2 targeting Mother\u2019s Day moviegoers.<\/p>\n

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\n\tDevil Wears Prada 2 ended the week with $101.7M, with the movie already past $300M worldwide.<\/p>\n

\n\tStill, a $40M+ start for the Simon McQuoid-directed sequel based on the Midway video game is a great start for Mortal Kombat II, considering the previous 2021 installment saw its opening and grosses siphoned from a Covid-era theatrical day-and-date release on HBO Max with $23.3M. That movie finaled at $42.3M domestic, and the opening for its sequel could outstrip that entire gross alone.<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount\u2019s Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft<\/a>: The Tour (Live in 3D)<\/strong> brought in $2.2M<\/strong> in overall previews including Thursday night and April 29 early-access shows at\u00a02,350\u00a0locations.\u00a0The pic directed by Eilish and James Cameron is expected to bring in $6M-$9M.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAmazon MGM Studios\u2019 Sheep Detectives <\/strong>held previews Thursday night starting at 2 p.m. as well as earlier previews. All in, it was $1M<\/strong>. The pic is expected to open to around $12M.<\/p>\n

\n\tRest of the week:<\/p>\n

\n\t1. The Devil Wears Prada 2 (20th) 4,150 theaters, Wk $101.7M\/Wk 1<\/p>\n

\n\t2. Michael (LG) 3,955 theaters, Wk $74.1M (-43%), Total $203.9M\/Wk 2<\/p>\n

\n\t3. Project Hail Mary (AMZ) 3,017 theaters, Wk $11.9M (-32%), Total $321.7M\/Wk 7<\/p>\n

\n\t4. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (Uni) 3,419 theaters, Wk $14.9M (-41%), Total $405.5M\/Wk 5<\/p>\n

\n\t5. Hokum (Neon) 1,885 theaters, Wk $9.1M\/Wk 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Line\u2019s Mortal Kombat II stepped into the ring Thursday night and rang up $5.2M in previews, which…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":782527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[320154,171,49486,29889,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-782526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft","tag-entertainment","tag-mortal-kombat-ii","tag-the-devil-wears-prada-2","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116540426606100539","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}